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[–]BossOfTheGame 28 points29 points ago

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I won a contest to attend The Business of Software 2009 conference in San Francisco. There was an open bar.

[–][deleted] 10 points11 points ago

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Upvote for open bar

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

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second

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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Gimme six schlitz's!

Ah fuck it, whatever's free.

[–]YesNoMaybe 23 points24 points ago* 

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$200 gift card to the my university gift shop...but the story of how it happened is pretty good.

I worked at putt-putt golf and games all through high-school. We were open 364 days a year, which left a LOT of room for doing absolutely nothing - I'm talking me and the putt-putt center, with all of its games (arcade and other), all alone. I spent hours and hours playing the timed basketball shooting game. There was nobody who could come anywhere close to my scores - I was like fucking rainman on that thing.

Fast forward to my freshman year of college. At the student union they were having a big festival with games and stuff and they are having games where the best scores can win free stuff. Of course, there is the exact model of my basketball game - highest score of the day wins $150 gift card. My stoned, 5'9" long-haired self walked up to all the gigantic basketball players playing over and over and said "step aside gentleman and let me claim my prize." No shit. I said that and they laughed and slapped my back.

I proceeded to beat the highest score of the entire day by over 25 points. The girl running the booth was like "holy shit! Are you on the basketball team?" Again: I'm 5'9", barely 135 pounds and my scraggly hair is hanging to my nipples. Yeah, everybody on basketball teams in the SEC look like me.

To top it off, there was a raffle for a $50 gift card and they drew my name on that too. Merry Christmas family: I bought all your gifts from the university bookstore.

[–]stordoff 2 points3 points ago

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step aside gentleman and let me claim my prize

As soon as you said this, I can only imagine you as the spy from TF2.

[–]zanthraxnl 22 points23 points ago

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I frequently win at who's-the-most-socially-retarded-person-in-the-room?
Unfortunately there are no prizes.

[–]FreakinWolfy 16 points17 points ago

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unfortunately there are no prizes

Shame and embarrassment

[–]Bluelabel 5 points6 points ago

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You forgot pity

[–]blackazndude 1 point2 points ago

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the sad thing is that this is the BEST thing hes ever won

[–]readcommentbackwards 42 points43 points ago

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My brother and I invested in a raffle ticket during an Arbor Day festival in NC when we were around the age of 12 from the Livestock Auction House. The prize? An effing Billy Goat.

We kept it simple, named him Billy. Pissing off Billy and running for our lives around the pasture is what we did for fun growing up. When we were lucky, we were able to ride Billy like a rodeo horse. Billy would and could eat anything that entered his territory. Billy pooped little pellets that looked like jelly beans, which left plenty room for pranks. Billy had a beard and was just effing awesome. We got Billy a girlfriend a few years later and his only concern became humping. In many ways, his life mirrored mine looking back on it.

[–]BubbaJimbo 38 points39 points ago

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I read your comment backwards and it was the sad tale of two men who took away a goat's sex partner, shoved stuff up his ass and made him throw up anything and everything, rode on him and chased him around the farm before finally giving him to an auction house in exchange for a little piece of paper.

[–]readcommentbackwards 21 points22 points ago

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You sir, are the Picasso of all commenters. Throughout the entirety of my 6th month old novelty account, I have been waiting for someone to put something like this together. Bravo, sir, bravo.

[–]ADIDAS247 2 points3 points ago

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If I was 12 and brought a Billy Goat home, my parents would have killed me. You should see how they reacted when they found a Playboy under my bed, imagine if they found a effing Billy Goat instead.

[–]readcommentbackwards 3 points4 points ago

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Goat meat can range in prices up to nearly $35 a pound. The entire purpose of his life was to be raised, shot, and eaten. Having the whole "we're saving his life" argument went a long ways in keeping the goat. He also kept my dad from having to mow/bushhog the backyard ever again. Goats are awesome.

[–]raid18 1 point2 points ago

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I call BS on the $35 a pound goat meat. Fillet Mignon is like $15 a pound. No way Billy would cost more than twice as much as Fillet Mignon. All of Billy would probably cost $35. Dirt poor Africans eat goat.

[–]readcommentbackwards 0 points1 point ago

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Goats in the united states are raised for meat, which is rare and exotic in comparison to cow. Look up the prices for snake, snapping turtle meat, etc.

[–]jamesholden 1 point2 points ago

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i think those prices are inflated because there is not large enough demand to create a proper supply chain.

anyone who eats goat, snake, turtle, etc usually kills the animal their self (atleast here in Alabama)

[–]disgustipated 0 points1 point ago

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And oftentimes using their vehicles.

[–]raid18 0 points1 point ago

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You can get a whole goat for $250! The most expensive seems to be the baby goat, which is only like $10 a pound. I think you need to get a new goat guy.

Goat Prices

[–]readcommentbackwards 0 points1 point ago

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Arguing about goat meat was the last thing I expected today . . . anyhow, I see what your point is and I agree. My initial statement was accounting for the different types of cuts of meat. The "fillet mignon" of the goat will of course cost more than the rest. I've seen some of the larger Boer goats go for nearly $800 on the block, but these were the monster 200 lb+ males used primarily for breeding.

[–]butteryhotcopporn 0 points1 point ago

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Wait, that was touching, except for the goat shit as candy prank.

[–]FoffT 0 points1 point ago

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My dad bought a goat once so we wouldn't have to mow the lawn.

[–]RichardBachman 0 points1 point ago

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Try a little stool softener, should help out.

[–]jibid 31 points32 points ago

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My wife and I were scheduled to be at an Oprah taping and it ended up being "Oprah's Favorite Things". We each took home over $10,000 worth of stuff.

[–]tonster181 5 points6 points ago

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$10K is a meager prize for enduring Oprah's drivel for an hour :P

[–]TheRealBuzzLightyear 6 points7 points ago

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No it isn't.

[–]jibid 1 point2 points ago

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The taping took about 4 hours. And that is way more than I make in 4 hours.

[–]safetydance 1 point2 points ago

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Do they ship all the big stuff to your house for free?

[–]jibid 0 points1 point ago

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Yes. The ice cream and cupcakes were overnighted with dry ice. The refrigerators were delivered by a delivery company. The mixer and dvds came UPS. The boots and turtleneck/pants were shipped after we sent sizes. It was like Christmas for a month.

Most of the smaller stuff was given to us at the taping.

[–]astronogirl 1 point2 points ago

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Oh man, that'd be so sweet! A second request for the list of schwag!

[–]jibid 1 point2 points ago

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Samsung HD Camcorder (SC-HMX10C) Ugg Australia Cassic Crochet Boots Toywatch Crystal Watches Perfect Endings Cupcakes by Williams-Sonoma Melamine Bowls by Williams-Sonoma KitchenAid Artisan Mixer Planet Earth DVD Set by The Discovery Channel Kai Body Butter & Buffer Clarisonic Skin Care System Claus Porto Soaps from Lafco New York "The Pillars of the Earth" by Ken Follett Breville Ikon Panini Press by Williams-Sonoma Ciao Bella Sorbetto Rachel Pally Swing Turtleneck and Sailor Pants Scrabble Premier Edition from Hasbro United Artists 90th Anniversary Prestige DVD Collection Shaklee Get Clean O's Guide to Life Josh Groban's Noel CD (Josh Groban also performed live with David Foster) LG HDTV Refrigerator

[–]astronogirl 1 point2 points ago

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Holy crap! That's huge!

[–]butteryhotcopporn 0 points1 point ago

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Everything went better than expected.

[–]uhm 0 points1 point ago

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whatd you guys take home?

[–]jibid 0 points1 point ago

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[–]NathanBarley 12 points13 points ago

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I won an iPod at work once but it was very bittersweet, because it was a limited edition U2 iPod. I despise U2 and would always try to shield it from view when I took it out in public. The shame of it all was that it was red and black and is perhaps the coolest looking iPod they ever made.

[–]Faithbleed 7 points8 points ago

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When I was about 9, my (single) mom won a "Tell us why you and your Valentines deserve to win" competition in a trashy magazine after sending in a letter effectively saying "My Valentines is my son who is the only real love in my life".

She won the sympathy vote I guess, because we got a 2 weeks all expenses paid trip to Paradise Cove in Mauritius. Went water skiing, sailing, wake boarding, jet skiing, rock climbing for the first time in our lives and had an amazing adventure. Possibly the most awesome experience in both our lives.

Technically I didn't win it, but I got to go on the trip so I'm claiming it. Although I have won a Gameboy with Pokemon Red.

TL;DR My mom and I won a comp to go on a 2 week vacation in Mauritius

[–]supernewf 0 points1 point ago

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Awesome story dude. :)

[–]woimlgl 8 points9 points ago

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I won 200 t-shirts from threadless.com at pitchfork music festival last summer.

[–]Thomnomnom 6 points7 points ago

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You totally listen to bands that don't even exist yet.

[–]ironpony 8 points9 points ago

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$50,000 - Thanks scratch lotto ticket!

[–]christoph81 7 points8 points ago

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I won a $300 gift certificate to my favorite Chinese restaurant. I found out that I was drawn out of a pool of over 3000. I spread the love by taking everyone at my office to lunch.

[–]Chevellephreak 5 points6 points ago

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That's so nice of you!

[–]PersianBob 5 points6 points ago

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Never won anything in my life. Note even a game of bingo. Despite filling out forms and entering contests all the time. Then one summer I won a 32 inch LCD HDTV and a sony PSP gameboy thing. Suck it bitches.

[–]GARlactic 0 points1 point ago

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A sony PSP gameboy thing.

WHAT?

[–]kenerling 5 points6 points ago

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You want to hear my pathetic story?

The best thing I ever won was a pizza. Yeah, that's all I've ever "won" in the sense of getting something for free.

But I never actually got my free pizza.

You see, I won it because I was the first to call the radio station knowing that most car horns honk in the key of F.

Finally my luck had turned!

So, the day after, I pass by the radio station to pick up my coupon for a free pizza. There it was, in my hand, and my mouth was already watering...

And then I lost the coupon.

[–]wesblog 30 points31 points ago

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I won a race against millions of swimmers.

[–]joe12321 10 points11 points ago

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You won that race, but you're really in a 6.8-billion way tie with everyone else in the world.

[–]butteryhotcopporn 0 points1 point ago

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Errr, probably closer to 100 billion

[–]joe12321 1 point2 points ago

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I was only referring to living human beings.

Edit:... he said in defense of the logic of his absurd internet-joke.

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[–]wesblog 0 points1 point ago

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Rather than insult my unoriginality, why not thank me for allowing you to keep your life savings?

[–]simcdun 10 points11 points ago

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oh and I forgot: I once helped a nigerian prince by mail and received 2M$. So great... you guys should try it

[–]ivdrscg 2 points3 points ago

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FOTC FTW

[–]iowan 9 points10 points ago

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A gay bar where I used to live has gay bingo once a week. In addition to the normal cards, you can opt to buy individual cards for different games (with the money going to different organizations--the main bingo revenue goes to the community center).

One of the special cards it "loser bingo." Everyone who bought the card stands up. When the caller calls a number on your card you have to sit down. The last person left standing wins.

Well one week the loser bingo proceeds went to the roller girls. They were also selling jello shots for $1. I hate jello, but my sister and I were getting shots anyway. I had one dollar left, but I couldn't catch the eye of the roller girls with the trays. i gave up and bought a loser bingo card instead.

It came down to me and some guy. We were glaring at each other across the room (we were also dressed as pirates because it was pirate bingo). I ended up winning and getting $75 for being the loser.

[–]catmoon 50 points51 points ago

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TL;DR: I'm playing bingo. Look up. Back down. Where are you? In a gay bar. What's in your hand? Back at me. It's a "loser" bingo card. I'm a pirate now.

[–]BadAdditudeBaracus 17 points18 points ago

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I think for now all TL;DR should be in the "old-spice" format.

[–]monkeychipsx2 2 points3 points ago

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I want to have your babies, and then let them upvote you more.

[–]Tames 0 points1 point ago

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old spice? i just saw that post. im on a computer

[–]dashpot 5 points6 points ago

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You used to live in a gay bar? How did you sleep at night?

[–]Iguanaforhire 7 points8 points ago

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On his back.

[–]iowan 1 point2 points ago

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That's what the alcohol and drag queens were for ;-)

[–]raid18 1 point2 points ago

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Fabulously?

[–]Ictinike 0 points1 point ago

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Gay pirate bingo? I really need to get out more.

[–]vanuhitman 0 points1 point ago

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[–]fishyfishyfish 10 points11 points ago

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I won a rooster when I was a kid. It flew to the top of a tree in the neighbors yard and woke the entire neighborhood up at dawn for a couple of days until it came down and my dad gave it away to a farmer. good times.

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gave it to a farmer... that tends to happen to pets & kids

[–]dannyboy000 2 points3 points ago

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3 years after signing up for one of those "win a car" things in the mall, i received the 2nd place prize in the mail. A Jason Priestly autographed denim jacket.

[–]mystimel 3 points4 points ago

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I won a large university-wide raffle that got me 4 VIP tickets to the Red bull sponsored Drifting races. I took my boyfriend, my best friend, and her boyfriend and we had an awesome time. We were right by the track and the cars were drifting towards us no more than 20 feet away sometimes. We got to ride on the double-decker red bull bus and we even got upgraded to the super-VIP area where there was lots of awesome free food and an open bar as well. I'm not a red bull fan, but we had an awesome time regardless, and we stuffed lots of red bull in our bags to take home with us. The only bad thing about the experience was all the vapor from the tires and it being a season with lots of fires in SoCal (lots of ash in the air) made for really bad air quality that day. I never would have thought it could be as much fun as it was, and I was glad I won that prize rather than the Wii I was hoping to win in the raffle. :)

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points ago

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My ex gf paid a stripper to lap dance for me.

[–]Chevellephreak 2 points3 points ago

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I won a trip to Chicago and box seats to a Bulls game in '96 or '97, and a trip to LA to meet S Club 7 in 2001.

[–]suplusHP 3 points4 points ago

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I was at the music shop buying reeds for my sax. Dropped my name in the raffle for a Sigma guitar. The phone rang about 2 months later and (this was before caller ID) I said to my girlfriend, "that'll be my guitar". It was!

20 years and I haven't won anything since. But that guitar is holding up nicely.

[–]Paulie_Walnuts 6 points7 points ago

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The heart of the woman of my dreams..... just kidding, a playstation

[–]kmbrly88 2 points3 points ago

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$2000 in an essay contest in high school. It was a school assignment and I won for my entire state. I wrote the essay the night before it was due.

[–]ali0 2 points3 points ago

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Once I was at a drag bingo-event-thing (there's very little to do on my campus), when I won a 2GB flip video camera in a raffle. Never having won a raffle before I leaped up in joy. As the drag queen hostess gave me my prize she said it was too bad i was straight because i bounced like a gay boy. My friends never let it go.

[–]dashpot 2 points3 points ago

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I won an AM/FM stereo cassette player in a watermelon seed spitting contest when I was about 8 years old.

[–]itsthechuck 2 points3 points ago

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Lunch for my whole company at Chipotle, unfortunately there are only 3 of us. Fortunately we had about 50 company tees made up before we claimed our prize and we made it customer appreciation day, free tee and a burrito!

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points ago

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I have turned $50 to over $4000 in a few days after the super bowl for 3 years in a row now.

[–]MagicTarPitRide 2 points3 points ago

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I won a Presidential youth environmental award, from George Bush when I was in elementary school.

[–]Booster21 4 points5 points ago

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A lap dance from a midget in a raffle.

[–]brokenarrow 1 point2 points ago

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Go on...

[–]RandomLyricPoster 0 points1 point ago

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Must of been one midgetty midget to fit in a raffle?

[–]dzagama 1 point2 points ago

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I was born in America to educated parents.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

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I didn't win, but my buddy won two tickets on a radio station to meet Metallica and took me. They flew us out to San Francisco (we're from the East Coast), paid for our flight and hotel room. We met Metallica (James, Lars, Kirk, and Rob Trujillo) at their "HQ"...basically where they record and keep all their gear. We chilled out with them for about an hour and they signed autographs. Then they played a private show for us, about 45 minutes in their studio. After that, we had a BBQ with them, and then went our separate ways. Pretty damn cool experience I'd have to say.

[–]rgonzal 1 point2 points ago

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I won a bike at my uní. Only problem was that it was a women's beach cruiser....custom painted with school colors and mascot. the best part: it was actually another school's bike with a sticker of my school's mascot and name over theirs. Everyone turns their heads

[–]bigbabyelephant 1 point2 points ago

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A mini cooper in 2003. Still driving it today.

[–]redditgirl13 1 point2 points ago

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I won a $500 Visa gift card. I didn't know I won until it showed up in the mail. I had totally forgot I entered the contest...AWESOME. At first I thought it was a joke. NO joke. :-)

[–]phantomblaster 1 point2 points ago

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Pair of green Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle skis.

[–]Media_Offline 1 point2 points ago

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I won an Emmy in 2005. My mom loves to tell people about that when she introduces me.

[–]aerith 1 point2 points ago

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When I was younger, I entered an art competition to draw something from The Lion King. My artwork was chosen and featured in the magazine. I won The Lion King PC game, I was so happy :)

[–]gbo2k69 1 point2 points ago

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I won tickets to concerts in college. Usually by regularly calling local radio station give aways in Tacoma, WA. I also won at least twice from 107.7 The End (Seattle radio station). I think the best one I won was Lenny Kravitz at the Key Arena. This was almost 20 years ago now.

[–]altz 1 point2 points ago

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spring break my senior year of high school i went to mexico and won a bottle of tequila for competing in a kayak race that my hotel put on, victory has never tasted so sweet

[–]Yegger 1 point2 points ago

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My dad entered a raffle at our local golf course, he bought 3 tickets and instead of putting his name on all 3 he only put his name on one and signed my name to the other two. He said he did this because he has such bad luck. Two weeks later I was the proud winner of a $150 Hybrid Cobra.

[–]imakevoicesformycats 1 point2 points ago

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This thread.

[–]freakball 1 point2 points ago

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You dub videos of your cats with your voice?

[–]imakevoicesformycats 1 point2 points ago

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Not yet. Just use the voice for one (1) of my two cats (Ginny, not Pippin) with my wife, friends, and family. She's racist, Catholic, and Mexican.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

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8th grade geography bee, won an inflatable globe and an Atlas.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

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Probably less for the monetary value than the sheer skill. Mum, my sister and my stepsister (normally i wouldn't make the distinction, but she was a bitch:P) were at Plymouth Pier in England (originally from Australia) and I remember it being extremely overcast and raining. They had an ancient Skill tester, and mum won us three of these little alien things in a row, one for each of us, after we'd all spent our pocket money trying to get one of the buggers :)

[–]notaherdanimal 1 point2 points ago

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the love of an incredible woman....by just being me... who knew?

[–]eyc 1 point2 points ago

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A grocery bag full of paper airplanes. (One of them was a Whitewings!)

[–]influenceuh 1 point2 points ago

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Two consecutive pog tournaments. I still have all of the Simpson's pogs that I won. That was fifteen years ago.

[–]dermballs 0 points1 point ago

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The Simpsons are back, in Pog form.

[–]papertigers 1 point2 points ago

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32" TV from a guitar hero tournament

[–]InappropriateGirl 1 point2 points ago

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I won diamond stud earrings from using an online card site. This was quite a while back, and if I'd gotten that "you won!" email later on, I would have simply deleted it as spam. As it was, a woman called me, asked me my choice of prize (the rest of the jewelry was really ugly), got my work address and the next day a pair of 1/2-carat diamond earrings showed up via FedEx. Funny thing is, I used the site to bombard an ebay user who ripped me off. It was only a $10 item or so, but the idea of someone ripping me off that way really got to me. So it was kind of karmic.

[–]InappropriateGirl 1 point2 points ago

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Oh, I also won backstage passes to INXS in 1986. That was cool.

[–]Zarrrrrrrrrrrr 1 point2 points ago

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An undergraduate essay contest. They gave me $100 and profs seemed to like me more after that.

[–]jklmnb 1 point2 points ago

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when i was a kid i won a nes + smb3 by having the highest score at some store in our local mall. i used the trick in level 2 (i think) where you jump on the turtles to get extra lives, but stopped each time i reached 8000 pts.

i had almost 10x the points of the next person, they must have thought i cheated. i already had a nes, but it was right when the snes came out, so i traded it in for store credit and my parents covered the rest.

[–]safety3rd 2 points3 points ago

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My wife's hear.....Oh, no wait a minute I won an 8" B&W portable TV once. A little TV.

[–]trickiwoo 0 points1 point ago

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I used to have one of those! I used to take it to school and watch tv in the auditorium during free periods.

[–]atomicthumbs 0 points1 point ago

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Did anyone get weirded out that you had a human heart next to you while watching TV?

[–]dsully215 2 points3 points ago

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In elementary school I correctly guessed the weight of a 95-pound pumpkin and won it as a prize. Cleaning it out to carve was an adventure...

[–]TinctureOfBadass 2 points3 points ago

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In the early days of the internet (late 90's sometime), there was a site called whatshotnow.com, where you were supposed to vote on, well, what's hot now. Every vote counted as a chance to win a weekly prize of $1000. Being the tricky recent graduate that I was, I wrote a script to cast random votes over and over. I left it running the whole week and boom! I won $1000. This was right when the site started doing that promo, so (a) I didn't get caught automating my votes, and (b) the $1000 prizes hadn't dried up yet. Yay for me!

[–]stoicsmile 1 point2 points ago* 

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I won tickets to a beer festival. It was one of the most amazing days of my life.

I won the tickets in a scavenger hunt type contest at a bar in Asheville, NC.

EDIT: Something seems to be wrong with their website, so the beer festival was BrewGrass which has hundreds and hundreds of small breweries with several beers each. You get a little glass and can taste as much beer as you want all damn day long.

[–]stab_master_arson 2 points3 points ago

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$100 bucks on a scratch ticket.

I never win a thing usually.

[–]dogboat 1 point2 points ago

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I won a huge box of bubble gum in elementary school when I won a bubble blowing contest.

[–]dariusfunk 2 points3 points ago

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A PowerGlove. It was so terrible to use that I think I ended up cutting the cord off and wearing it to school. (elementary school for context)

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

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At SIGGRAPH (huge annual industry convention for computer graphics) 2004 I won an Nvidia QuadroFX 1700 graphics card in a drawing contest.

[–]Archz714 1 point2 points ago

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I won tickets on this radio station in LA (kroq) to see At The Drive-in open up for Rage Against The Machine.

[–]Rollout 1 point2 points ago

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My wife's hand in marriage....

[–]DJBJ[S] 9 points10 points ago

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That seems more like something that you worked for, not won randomly like a raffle. However, congratulations anyways!

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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When I was 12, my dad took me to our town's high school homecoming game. We bought raffle tickets and I ended up winning the football used in the game, signed by the whole team. For years I treasured it because the quarterback went on to play football for a major university, then baseball for the Yankees (I think). Now I treasure it because I lost my dad last summer, and it just reminds me of how much fun we had when I was growing up.

[–]yottskry 0 points1 point ago

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I won a Palm D'Music MP3 player back in the days when they'd only just come out and long before the iPod. It had 32MB memory and held around 10 songs :D

[–]fatboynotsoslim 0 points1 point ago

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I was browsing a tech site for reviews on a particular video card that had just came out, only to be greeted with a big FU from the site, for using Adblock. It was a complete redirect, so I had to whitelist the site so I could read the review (I had planned to reblock it right after though).
When I reloaded, I was greeted with all the web has to offer in bright flash annoying, flash based ads, and the video card review that I wanted.
One of the ads that was blocked was a competition to win a motherboard and other prizes from ECS. Being the bored slacker that I was, I clicked it, signed up and went on with my day.
Three weeks later I got an email that I won the first tier prize, which was their top motherboard (still a POS) and they needed my info to send it to me.
A few days later, I had my brand new motherboard, and all I had to do for it was disable adblock on a site, that really needs to be adblocked.

[–]kblivinglrg 0 points1 point ago

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Not me, but a friend won an Xbox at our Senior All-Night Party.

5 minutes before, he said "yo, if I win that Xbox, it's yours."

He held true to his word and I played billions of hours of Xbox.

[–]puppit 0 points1 point ago

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One of the best things I've won was my sibling was running a model UN thing and on the second to last day a few staff members had panic attacks and went home so at 1am she calls me to help out on the last day. So a hour train ride and 2 bus rides later I'm there. I act as a runner/security all day. So after the days evens are done im changing for dinner in my sisters room and i hear a knock on the door, I open the door and what do i see? Two of though hotel baggage carts filled with booze being pushed into the room. Lets just say it was a great night (note i was underage at the time of this happening so free booze was a great win in my book hell it still is).

[–]EvyEarthling 0 points1 point ago

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The only thing I've ever won was a pair of snowshoes in a raffle.

[–]LazersGoPewPew 0 points1 point ago

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I won a 4-day/3-night vacation (airline travel and lodging were paid for) to Nassau for placing 1st in a Halloween costume contest at a bar. As a poor college student, it was an awesome thing to win.

[–]Bedrovelsen 0 points1 point ago

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A netbook

[–]savro 0 points1 point ago

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A few years ago I won an Alienware PC from one of those "Win one of 10 Alienware Gaming PCs!" contests they used to stick in computer game boxes. I usually don't enter these contests, but that time I figured what the hell, I'll do it.

I had forgotten about it when they contacted me about six months later to tell me I had won. At first I thought I was being scammed but when they mentioned the name of the game it jogged my memory. They didn't ask me to send them any money or anything like that, just verify my address and fill out a tax form. A few weeks later I was gaming on my new system.

It was a fairly decent system for the time. I still have that machine, though it isn't my primary system anymore.

So I guess I'll never win the lottery now. I've used up all of my luck already.

tl;dr I won a PC from Alienware in one of the drawings they put in computer game boxes.

[–]sapienshane 0 points1 point ago

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I won an ipod in a Guitar Hero competition put on by a local radio station at my school.

[–]fribby 0 points1 point ago* 

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A ten-speed bike when I was eleven! My name was picked out of a draw box at a store opening. Up until then I had only ridden hand-me-down dirt bikes.

I also won a pretty nice food processor/blender/mixer combo in a draw at the thank-you party for BC Games volunteers when I was about fourteen. I still have it, but nothing beats that ten-speed.

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I won a roll of toilet paper playing Loteria in Mexico

[–]warmpita 0 points1 point ago

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Banjo Kazooie from Cartoon Network.

[–]the_hmm 0 points1 point ago

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I won the pepsi party pack one year. Just got a bunch of coupons for Pepsi and Doritos products, a blacklight and strobe light.

[–]Starayo 0 points1 point ago* 

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I once won the internets for a day. A whole day. I don't remember why.

Oh and this one time I won dog poop in a can, it was part of a sweepstakes thingy for that PS2 game where you were a dog...

My sister and I used to go to disney on ice with our grandparents. On the bus on the way over there would be a raffle. We won the warm knitted blankets every time without fail.

[–]rhiesa 0 points1 point ago

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On new years I went to a work party, won $100 in a dancing competition and $500 as a door prize.

That was an excellent night.

[–]hungryhungryhorus 0 points1 point ago

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I once won $110 at a company Christmas party raffle.

I also won $40 after entering a drawing of mine in a contest. I think that one was better.

[–]Claptrap 0 points1 point ago

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I won an xbox from macdonalds when they were still pretty new :D

[–]Mason11987 0 points1 point ago

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I won a portable DVD player, like $100 in a raffle where only a few people bought tickets, so I only spent $2.

[–]freeholmes 0 points1 point ago

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Holographic Charizard card!

[–]btway 0 points1 point ago

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[–]freeholmes 0 points1 point ago

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GREAT BALLS OF FIRE!!! Sadly no I do not. I let my sister take my worthwhile cards to school for show and tell, they got left in her pocket and well my mom did the laundry that afternoon. Their protective plastic sheathes may have protected from scratching, but not from the washing machine.

[–]gct 0 points1 point ago

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I won a big prize at a hunting banquet when I was like 14 or 15. It pissed my dad off because I've always had weird luck, so he bought a ticket and told me to pick a winner, and I did. There was all kinds of miscellaneous hunting stuff in the lot we won, I don't remember it all though. Another time at a similar event I won a raffle and got one of these babies clicky

Also when I was in first grade I guessed how much candy was in a jar and got to pig out for like a week on it.

[–]Tames 0 points1 point ago

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back in the nineties i won 4 dr.peppers in a row (when you could win by looking under the caps)

[–]phantomblaster 0 points1 point ago

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Those were the good ole days...

[–]BigPoppatex 0 points1 point ago

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Airfare from Oklahoma City, hotel room for 3 nights, and tickets to see Pearl Jam's opening show at Key Arena in Seattle - Dec 7th, 1993. Good times...

[–]Ictinike 0 points1 point ago

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Midwest AMACCS Superbike championship. Is that the right kind of "win"? If not, then $500 I won in a poker run last year.

[–]coolestguyonreddit 0 points1 point ago

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I won a $250 Amazon certificate from a free MMO. I just noticed they were running a contest to invite a friend and then get a screen shot with them when they reach level 5. I registered an account, sent my wife an invite and 30 minutes later we posted the pic. On the down side it took us over a year to actually receive the card.

[–]bkbeezy 0 points1 point ago

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Not that great, but I won some tickets in a raffle to a water park in like 3rd grade. We eventually got them to exchange them for six flag tickets.

[–]charon_x86 0 points1 point ago

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fights for sport, in front of an audience. the work required to train and the hand being lifted in victory is a fantastic sense of accomplishment and reward.

[–]japes2288 0 points1 point ago

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In high school I won a Canon PowerShot S1 Is camera from a local camera shop that sponsored a contest. The photo had to capture "a day in the life of Connecticut Town High School." I thought my photo sort of sucked but I guess it just sucked less than the rest of them.

[–]pandemik 0 points1 point ago

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50 bucks

[–]Lumiloop 0 points1 point ago

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I won a Grand Theft Auto IV baseball bat when the game first came out. Apparently, on the list of prizes, 2nd or 3rd was the bat, and the last was a year subscription to XBL... I would've preferred the year of XBL!

[–]krush_groove 0 points1 point ago

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My old workplace used to have gift raffles at the Christmas party, one year I won an electronic keyboard, good enough to learn on and make beats, etc., but the catalog shop was out of stock so I got to choose my own gift worth the same amount, so I went for a North Face Cat's Meow backpacking sleeping bag. What a great bag.

My last year there I won a $1000 travel voucher, which I used to fly to my mom's. I should have gone business class though, the ticket was only like $200.

[–]MelkorTheGreat 0 points1 point ago

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I got 600 MS points and Marvel vs. Capcom 2 when I was in The Mob for Xbox Live's 1 vs 100.

[–]Smiling_Politely 0 points1 point ago

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I won tickets to see Paul McCartney this past summer..I wanted to go soo bad but I couldn't afford it at the time, so winning was surreal!! And it was absolutely the greatest thing I've ever seen.. or will probably ever see.

[–]sahkuh 0 points1 point ago

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I won a 512MB mp3 player during my senior graduation raffle. This was in 2003, so it wasn't that impressive. I remember buying my first 64MB mp3 player in 1999 that cost me 100 dollars.

[–]sbussy89 0 points1 point ago

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Threw a ping pong ball into a champagne glass at an amusement park to win a 5 ft snowman for my g/f. And they said beer pong was a waste of time...

[–]jadepanther 0 points1 point ago

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A friend gave me a couple bucks in change at the bowling alley to buy some peel tab lotto tickets. She divvies them up between the two of us, and I won $50 on a 25 cent pull tab.

I have won the random hats and t-shirts at sports bars too, but those don't count.

[–]slight_genius 0 points1 point ago

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I won prizes off a radio station a couple weeks apart. I won tickets to a WHL hockey game and a couple weeks later I won a free round for two at Furry Creek Golf Course (IMO one of the best).

[–]Verbitan 0 points1 point ago

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A Nokia 3310 = D Back when they were really cool...

[–]sotroo 0 points1 point ago

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$35 in a poetry contest, yessss

[–]trickiwoo 0 points1 point ago

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I won a costume contest once at a Marilyn Manson concert and got to meet the band and got an autographed t-shirt. The worst part is, I wasn't even a fan. I just went along with a friend who really wanted to go. The t-shirt has been hanging in my closet for the last 12 years or so.

[–]ivdrscg 1 point2 points ago

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why wouldn't give the shirt to your friend then?

[–]trickiwoo 0 points1 point ago

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I offered it but she wouldn't take it.

[–]TehRhawb 0 points1 point ago* 

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I won an original Xbox at a Mazda Rev it Up event for setting the best time for the hour. I had just bought an Xbox about 2 weeks prior to my winning lap, so I still have have the free one sealed in the box somewhere around my place - I figure maybe it'll become valuable in 30 years or so.

[–]Qwirk 0 points1 point ago

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My wife and mother-in-law put my (and their) names in for a raffle to win dinner and a stay at a hotel for a night. Sadly I won and probably used up all of my win luck.

[–]Raisedshoulder 0 points1 point ago

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The biggest thing I've ever won was a 4 tickets to a coyotes hockey game because I sold a bunch of soda for my school. It was in box seats for coca cola. I wasn't really too big of a fan of hockey so I just gave it to my dad. He decided to give it to one of his friends he knows that runs a small mexican jewelry store. So the people at coca cola were expecting us to be there and instead there was a small mexican family that hardly spoke english.

[–]fotopaper 0 points1 point ago

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I won a Sony Mylo in 2007. it was pretty cool.

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I won about $1,350 in a $15 buy in hold 'em tournament online. I beat out around 550-600 people and took first. Poker was my job for that summer =D

[–]ams1969 0 points1 point ago

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I just won "Best in Show" and "Distinguished" awards at the STC awards!

[–]crystallic 0 points1 point ago

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It's a tie between an Xbox 360 2 years ago, and $2000 3 years ago...nothing yet this year though :(

[–]akong_supern00b 1 point2 points ago

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why is that a tie? $2000 > Xbox 360, no? you coulda bought an xbox for $400, then still had $1600 left to buy 4 more xboxs. if you don't count tax i guess...

[–]systemlord 0 points1 point ago

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A few months ago I went to a shooting competition and won a complete DPMS upper valued at around $700.

Now i Just need a lower and get myself a real nice AR-15.

[–]briguy57 0 points1 point ago

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I won a sick cell phone back in High School. By today's standards its shit, but back then it was the best phone you could buy. It came with service for quite a while too.

[–]catsrevil 0 points1 point ago

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An ipod touch from Oracle at a conference. But they never sent it to me.

[–]IAmTheUniverse 0 points1 point ago

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I was on a team that won the Microsoft College Puzzle Challenge at my school, we got free copies of Office Ultimate... I value the experience more than the prize, haha.

[–]oingoboingo27 0 points1 point ago

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I was also on my school-winning team...my teammates chose office ultimate, i chose Windows 7....but they still haven't sent it to me :-(

[–]CallMemaJiC 0 points1 point ago

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I won tickets to a summer jam type concert. It was T.I., Paul Wall, a bunch of mainstream rappers, in a freaking drawing....

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$600 (Sounds decent, right? But it was a lottery and I was just one number off from winning $200k).

[–]Mycetophile 0 points1 point ago

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I won a weekend for two at the Homestead Resort in VA at a Richmond Renegades game. Had to ride a tricycle from the goal line to the red line and back. Of course, I was only 13 at the time, so my dad and mom used it.

[–]imperfcet 0 points1 point ago

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Wow, I hope they at least got you a really sweet birthday present for that one.

[–]dlm 0 points1 point ago

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I won a very nice basketball as part of a halftime raffle at a basketball game. The next day my friends and I were outside playing with it when someone took a bad shot and the ball rolled into the street, perfectly timed with an oncoming bus. Bam!

Note: This is the only thing I have ever won other than a Windows 7 backpack.

[–]penguinswithpie 0 points1 point ago

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KB toys was having a contest back in the early 90's when The Lion King came out. They were giving away a bunch of Lion King toys and my mom won and gave them all to me for Christmas yay11!!1!

[–]Blu- 0 points1 point ago

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The only thing I've ever won: A copy of District 9.

[–]jfb3 0 points1 point ago

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Dinner for two, a limo for an evening, and 50 dollars. All for having the largest group at a bar.

[–]simcdun -2 points-1 points ago

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my wife: I beat every other guy she met in her adult life... Fuck yeah!

[–]jacksofscience 0 points1 point ago

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I got a free Wii from Lockerz.com redemption. Okay, not quite free in a sense that I invested time to get points, but still!

[–]kadoogan 0 points1 point ago

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My sanity...After 28 or so years of depression I have genuinely been happy everyday (without alcohol or drugs) for the last few years.